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Eco-photos of the week: May 3-9

Beautiful disaster

Surfers enter the water under heavy smoke from the Jesusita fire at Butterfly Beach in Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara, Calif. Firefighters are experiencing a setback as the out-of-control wildfire is making a run to the west. Santa Barbara is suffering its third major wildfire to burn homes in less than a year. Dozens of homes have been destroyed, firefighters have been injured, and thousands of households are under mandatory evacuation orders.

Beautiful disaster

Surfers enter the water under heavy smoke from the Jesusita fire at Butterfly Beach in Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara, Calif. Firefighters are experiencing a setback as the out-of-control wildfire is making a run to the west. Santa Barbara is suffering its third major wildfire to burn homes in less than a year. Dozens of homes have been destroyed, firefighters have been injured, and thousands of households are under mandatory evacuation orders.